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Lyon County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Lyon County’s unemployment rate is 5.2%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 7 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Lyon County economy

  • 5.2%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    5.6% the month before

  • 16,567

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 32,145

    people in Lyon County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $59,078

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 33%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Lyon County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Lyon County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Lyon County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. GPAC3 open roles
  2. Colgate Palmolive1 open role
  3. Davron1 open role
  4. Lyon County, Kansas1 open role
  5. Pilot Company1 open role

Colleges in Lyon County

Colleges in Lyon County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Emporia State UniversityEmporiaPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Lyon County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • Kansas WorkforceONE

    Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn, Lyon, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson

  • KANSASWORKS Southeast - Emporia

    Emporia · Affiliate · 620-342-3355

    M, T, W, Th 8:00am -1:00pm and 2:00pm-5:00pm, and F 8:00am -1:00pm

Cities in Lyon County

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Lyon County?

See what to do first and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Kansas’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.